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Our week in the Giro d’Italia
19 May 2025
On stage 4 many of our riders were involved in a big crash. Sadly, Nick Zukowsky broke his collarbone and had to abandon his first Grand Tour.
An update from our team doctor Dr. Lorenz Emmert.
“Nick was released from hospital last Friday after having surgery on the collarbone. The bone was in five pieces so the surgeon had to perform a longer incision. Nick won’t be able to train at all for the next two weeks to avoid infection or dislocation. After that we evaluate his condition again.”
In this week of racing the Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team also managed to step onto the podium of a Grand Tour stage for the first time in its history. Tom Pidcock sprinted to third place on stage 5.
The final of the 151-kilometer-long stage from Ceglie Messapicato to Matera was a punchy one with a climb with gradients up to 10% in the final three kilometers.
“It was a hard final. They race so hard these days that there are still a hundred left up there,” Pidcock analysed. “You have to be very focused all the time. I don’t think we as a team could have done anything different. You have to go with the race. I was on Mads’ wheel and let the pace go a bit. I should have gone straight past but it was a long way so I went around him. Third is not bad though.”
All eyes were on stage 9 where the final would resemble that of the iconic Strade Bianche, a race Tom won in the past and where he was second this year. Sadly, it was a day of bad luck for the team and for Tom.
Sports director Gabriele Missaglia looks back: “We looked forward to this stage because we know the parcours perfectly well. The team took control at the front of the peloton to make sure the breakaway wouldn’t get too far and that Tom could start the first gravel sector in a good position.
He did. He was in the first group of 20 riders but at the end of the first sector Tom was involved in a crash. He restarted immediately but then he punctured the real wheel. The team car was too far back, and Milan Vader gave his bike. After a second puncture getting back to the front became impossible. All groups were going full gas.
I am happy because Tom was very strong, and the team worked incredibly well. Everyone did their best job for him. We just didn’t have the luck today. I am disappointed about the result but not because we were bad as a team but because without luck it isn’t possible.”
The Giro d’Italia starts again on Tuesday with the second and last time trial of the race. It’s a 28,6-kilometre-long, mostly flat ride from Lecce to Pisa.
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